Skin Moisturizing Magic – DIY 3 Ways

I first learned in Jeanne Rose’s Herbal Body Book that thick, oily skin creams could suffocate the skin and clog pores. This was news to me, since I had used thick creams for my dry skin most of my life.

What to use instead? Vegetable glycerin!

Vegetable glycerin is a humectant, drawing moisture from the surrounding air to your skin. Because it comes from vegetable oils, it is natural, emollient and moisturizing, and it is, in fact, a “secret ingredient” in a large number of moisturizing products.

Note that many moisturizers contain petroleum and synthetic fragrance. Making your own can be your safest bet.

The only downside of vegetable glycerin is that it can be sticky, but that is only if you use too much in relationship to other liquids. Here are a few ways of using vegetable glycerin that I have found work perfectly for my dry skin type. If you have oily skin, reduce the vegetable glycerin by one quarter.

Aloe vera gel and vegetable glycerin are both available in health food stores, as is, of course, honey.

By Annie B. Bond, the best-selling and award-winning author of five healthy/green living books, including Better Basics for the Home (Three Rivers Press, 1999), Home Enlightenment, Clean & Green (1990), and most recently True Food (National Geographic, 2010 and winner of Gourmand Awards Best Health and Nutrition Cookbook in the World). She has authored literally thousands of articles and was named “the foremost expert on green living” by Body & Soul magazine (2009).

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